A Thought
Stepping outside of the all immersing 2004 political campaign, I ran across the following excerpt I once read. It made me think about this great country and definitely raised many concerns. One problem with mankind is we are self interested. Generally speaking, our politicians and people of wealth and power will legitimize their daily actions as pursuing a great democracy or doing what is best for the country. I think campaigns, partisanism and political battle are destructive to the almighty USA. Guys like Hannity, Rush just scream hate for any differing view. And sure, the other side has characters but not to the extent of Hannity or Rush(M. Moore). But, it didn't seem to be this way until recently, but what do I know?
"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know it doesn't make people close to their government to be told that this is a people's government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing to do with knowing one is governing.
What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security.
.........And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.
Milton Mayer
No, I am NOT comparing anyone to Hitler. This is just food for thought. Every American should question their motives and the motives of those they support. Only if we could go back to when politicians were selfless and truly sacrificed their self interest for the strengthening
of the country. I will now step off my soapbox.
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